About Maslak Spine Tower

This mixed-use tower project embodies a circular spatial configuration, instead an angular bearing, avoiding overwhelming its surroundings. Yet it is likely to capture attention from multiple angles. Its distinctive, iconic presence directly reflects the aspirations of the business environment of Istanbul, which is gathering strength in global terms. The success of the design comes from efforts to alleviate and decompose the building’s mass by way of several slight but attentive touches along its exterior.

These include an ovoid cut in the façade, which breaks up the monolithic appearance of the glass curtain wall and reminds the onlooker of its curving form in plan even when viewed straight on from the side. On the reverse side of the tower, the skin is pulled outwards where the cut appears, as if a second parabolic form were slowly passing through the tower. The rounding continues in a third plane, scalloping the top eight floors under a curving glass atrium.